The prophets - The suggestion to regard this word as a scribal error for “Levites,” which occurs in Chronicles (see the marginal reference),…

And the prophets—that is, the numerous members of the prophetic order, who at this time formed a distinct class, repeatedly mentio…

And the king went up into the house of the Lord
To the temple, from his palace:

and all the men o…

Josiah had received a message from God that the ruin of Jerusalem could not be prevented, but that he himself would only deliver his own soul; yet …